My Story
My name is Jordan. I am just a girl in love with a really big God. Still amazed at any moment He chooses to speak to me and through me. I grew up in the church, and some of my first memories were dancing through the pews while my dad played the piano, rehearsing for the worship team.
I grew up under the impression that worship was only music. While I loved it, I couldn’t help but feel that there was something about the Lord I was still missing. I had this ache in my soul to find out why people worshipped God, and how there could be so many different expressions of it around the world, yet all worshipping the same God. What was the ‘right’ way? When I was 18 years old, my dad asked me what I wanted to do with my life, and before I could even think about it, this answer came flying out of my mouth. “I want to travel the world and see how other people worship God.”
I would later find out how that statement became my very calling. Though this seed was deeply planted, I decided to finish college first. There was a lot of healing and growing that needed to happen in the next 4 years before I finally reached my most desperate cries to the Lord. He responded with 2 visions in my mind. It was like watching movies of my life, only I was watching from His perspective. He showed me all the times I had moved out of my houses, and how He had slowly pulled me away from being attached to things and people, preparing me to be mobile. The next one, He showed me all of the times I had felt called to missions and how He had been calling me my whole life. At the end of the last vision, He said, “You are going to travel the world and teach about the heart of worship.”
Let me tell you how exciting and terrifying that was all at once. First, I was eager to travel the world, but I had never done so on my own, and I was quite scared. Second, I loved worship, but I had no idea what it meant to have a ‘heart of worship’, let alone teach about one. It felt so big and out of my reach, I convinced myself I just made all that up and didn’t tell anyone about it. Ha, I think that is exactly where God wanted me to be, so He could show up and I would know that none of this was in my own doing, but solely His.
He spent the following 3 years teaching me about the heart of worship from little children. At the beginning of this time, I was the Kids’ Worship Intern at my church, and I was supposed to be teaching them about what worship means. The only problem was, I really didn’t know how to describe it for myself, let alone to kids. One day, as I had finally prepared some answer to the question, I first asked the kids, “What is worship?”
One little, 4-year-old girl raised her hand and said, “Worship is connecting our heart to God’s heart.”
That one moment has changed my life forever. I dropped whatever definition I had come up with, and everything about my life has been built up from that one simple, yet deeply profound, moment.
Worship is connecting our hearts to God’s heart.
Sometimes, if not all the time, we need to stop complicating it and just connect our hearts to His. He will help us figure out the rest. I am living proof of that.
He then led me to the World Race, where over the course of about 4 years, I got to teach about the heart of worship in 17 countries around the world. I watched Him fulfill His promises in ways that completely blew every expectation and dream I ever had. He is always better.
Exactly 7 years after the initial vision and call to teach about the Heart of Worship around the world, the Lord gave me a new vision. He gave me the manuscript of everything He spent those years teaching me, and condensed it all down into one 12-week transformational course to help whoever is hungry, awaken the worshipper inside of them. We are all created to worship, but many of us are convinced, usually by a bad experience with someone, that we are not worshippers because we are maybe not musicians, or we are not the “lead” musician. Let me tell you now, there are 7 Hebrew words of praise in the Bible, and only 2 of them have anything to do with music. It is about so much more.
If you are ready to dive deeper in your relationship with God, discover more of who you are created to be, and find freedom from all that’s been holding you back, then let’s connect and see if this course is the right fit for you! My heart is truly to help people know Him more and, in that process, see people completely set free and walking in the peace that the Gospel promises.
He is already here, waiting for you. Are you ready?